Empire of Dirt: time to call time on commercial archaeology in Northern Ireland?

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I would like to say hurra although its probably a sad one because although you recognise that copyrights are involved you see absolutly no relevance in them to what you do and that your company and the museums and the curators like to imagine that they have sorted the copyrights out with licences (for free) to reproduce stuff mostly under the warm guise of it belongs to the public and for the good of knowledge.

I dont know where to take it next. Today you could go and clock in on site and do every thing that you normally do. Get your trowel out put a few bits of pot and bone in a bag and to many people you could look like an archaeologist and then come the end of the day clean up your loose and go home. send off the invoice: one day times day rate and do that for every day that we are on site. Then go on holiday with all the money that you was paid. Then one day the client says that they have just had a message from a enforcment officer of the local authority saying that they could not discharge the archaeology condition. The clients adiement that they saw you on site all day long and even noticed that you had a trowel. They have proof that they have paid you so what the hells going on? What does that client need from you to supply to this stupid enforcement officer?